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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya will set up a local court to try suspects involved in the violence that followed its 2007 presidential election, the president's office said on Monday.

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BRUSSELS/ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The European Union imposed sanctions targeting Ivory Coast incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and his allies on Monday, raising international pressure on him to quit after a disputed election.

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DUBAI (Reuters) - Nigerian politician James Ibori, who is wanted in Britain over allegations of corruption, has lost an appeal in Dubai against his extradition, according to a court statement on Monday.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya will scale back its efforts to stem the flow of illegal migrants from Africa to Europe unless the European Union pays it 5 billion euros a year, a government minister said on Monday.

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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - A former Nigerian militant leader handed eight camps in the Niger Delta to the military over the weekend, part of efforts to prevent new gangs emerging in the oil region after last year's amnesty.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt plans to offer billions of dollars worth of transport, energy and other projects in partnership with private firms over the next five years after rules to ease such deals are approved, officials said on Monday.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's economic development Minister Ebrahim Patel's plan to weaken the rand by cutting interest rates is unlikely to gain support in government and would not increase the country's competitiveness.

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Just a few weeks ago, as millions of families gathered in the United States to celebrate Thanksgiving, a lesser-known event went by unnoticed. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women kicked off 16 Days of Activism, an international campaign to end gender-based violence.

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New York — One of the United States diplomatic cables released by internet whistle-blower, WikiLeaks, has revealed that US had intelligence on last year's attack by the Boko Haram sect in some parts of North-east Nigeria before the attack was launched.

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TULLOW Oil vice-president for Africa has refuted allegations in one of the Wikileaks stories in which he is quoted accusing security minister Amama Mbabazi and energy minister Hillary Onek of graft.

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Nairobi — Security will be stepped up in the home regions of the six key suspects to be charged at The Hague on Wednesday over the 2008 post-election violence.

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Cancun — A new deal on climate change, struck in Cancun, Mexico, has brought greater optimism, and opened the way to addressing loss and damage in developing countries brought on by the impacts of global warming, including sea level rise.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's foreign minister said on Saturday information released by the WikiLeaks website showed there was no contradiction between Egyptian officials' public and private statements, the state news agency reported.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates on two skiffs seized the Panama-flagged vessel MV RENUAR after firing small arms and rocket propelled grenades at the merchant ship, the European Union naval force said on Sunday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday dismissed allegations that last month's parliamentary election was rigged and said any violations were too minor to undermine its legitimacy.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Egyptian activists and members of opposition groups protested on Sunday against what they said were violations during a parliamentary vote that handed the ruling party a huge victory last month.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Lawyers for a Sudanese campaign group launched a legal bid on Sunday to halt Sudan's referendum on southern independence, accusing organisers of mishandling the process, a move which could derail the January 9 vote.

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ALGIERS (Reuters) - The African Union does not favour sanctions for now over a disputed presidential election in Ivory coast and will instead stick to quiet diplomacy, the Union's top security official said on Sunday.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Laurent Gbagbo's camp accused the Western backers of rival presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara on Sunday of trying to sow divisions within the military to destabilise Ivory Coast.

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ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt said on Sunday it was reopening its shores to tourists at a popular Red Sea resort after a series of shark attacks over the last two weeks, which killed one person and injured four.